Musikfest puts tickets to all 10 headliners on half-off sale -- with a catch

June 26, 2013|By John J. Moser, Of The Morning Call

All 10 headline concerts at Bethlehem's Musikfest festival in August and more than 30 headline shows at Musikfest Café are being put on sale for buy-one, get-one free this week by ArtsQuest, the organization that runs both.

But there's a catch.

The sale will be only 90 minutes long. And you have to buy the tickets in person.

Still, it could save you up to $64 on two tickets.

Here are the details:

On Friday, June 28, ArtsQuest will hold the sale at ArtsQuest Center, 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem.

It will be from 4:30-6 p.m. for ArtsQuest members only, followed by a public sale from 6-7:30 p.m. No phone or online orders will be accepted and only new ticket purchases are eligible. There will be no refunds or exchanges; all sales are final.

Seven of the Musikfest headliners will have a limited number of buy-one, get-one-free tickets. There will be just 20 for Styx & Foreigner on Aug. 7; 60 for Ke$ha on Aug. 10 and 100 each for Carly Rae Jepsen on opening night, Aug. 2; OneRepublic on Aug. 3; Peter Frampton, B.B. King and Sonny Landreth on Aug. 5; Darius Rucker on Aug. 9 and Avenged Sevenfold on Aug. 11.

There will be $5 off every ticket after the buy-one, get-ones run out.

There will be no limit of buy-one, get-one for Musikfest's other three headliners: KC & The Sunshine Band on Aug. 8, George Thorogood on Aug. 6 and Skillet on Aug. 4.

In addition, there will be a limited number of $25 off the $159 VIP tickets all the shows except Styx & Foreigner and Darius Rucker.

There also will be limited numbers of buy-one, get-ones for the new Oasis VIP Lounge at Musikfest's main SteelStage for all headline shows. Tickets to the Oasis, which offers the venue's only full-service bar, air-conditioned rest rooms and adjacent parking, normally are $20 upgrades to regular ticket prices.

On the Musikfest Café shows, buyers can save as much as $64 on two tickets to see former Styx front man Dennis DeYoung on July 18 and $54 on two tickets for The Temptations on July 25 to a modest $10 on two tickets to see Psychic Medium Lauri Moore on Oct. 30 and Billy Bauer Band with Kalob Griffin Band on Sept. 14.

While half of the Musikfest Café shows have a limited number of buy-one, get-ones (just 20 for DeYoung, former Something Corporate frontman Andrew McMahon on July 23, The Temptations on July 25, and comedian Tracy Morgan on Sept. 27) the shows by Moore and Billy Bauer Band and 15 others don't.

This already marks the second such sale for Musikfest 2013, the festival's30th anniversary year. On Jan. 12, ArtsQuest offered buy-one, get-ones to the two Musikfest headliners announced by that time -- Jepsen and Rucker – and 33 Musikfest Café shows.

Musikfest this year runs Aug. 2-11.

Also on sale June 28 will be all Musikfest 2013 merchandise, at 20 percent off, at the ArtsQuest Center's Stacks Shop and 20-percent off all rentals at the ArtsQuest Center and Banana Factory booked by July 31.

For the complete list of shows on sale, go to http://www.artsquest.org/onedaysale.